Job 6:11
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What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
In other translations
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
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- Psalm 103:14-1614 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.14 For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field; 16 when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
- Psalm 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Job 17:1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
- Psalm 102:23He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.
- Job 10:20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
- Job 7:5-75 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.5 My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. 7 Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
- Job 21:4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
- Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
- Psalm 90:5-105 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.5 You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— 6 in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers. 7 For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
- Job 17:14-1614 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.14 and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ 15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? 16 Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
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